“The film will be really tough, really nasty,” [RIDLEY SCOTT] notes. “It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?”

“The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.”

Read more HERE and watch the original ‘ALIEN’ trailer (circa 1979) below.

Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its “Alien” franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director. Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.

The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

Read more HERE and watch the original ‘ALIEN’ trailer (circa 1979) below.

Source: Bloody Disgusting, Collider
CARL RINSCH is confirmed as the director for an ALIEN movie PREQUEL which producers hope to start filming by the end of this year. The story is still fresh enough and information is still sparse enough to have many critics/skeptics claiming this will be an outright remake or reboot.